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Thought For the Day: A Truly American Sentiment Recognizes the Dignity of Labor and the Fact That Honor Lies In Honest Toil
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.” – Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
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Tagged American, Dignity, Fact, Grover Cleveland, Honest Toil, Honor, Labor, Sentiment, Thought For the Day, Truly
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Pick Up Stix
Pick Up Stixby Michael DoyleYou can pick up sticksYou can play a thousand licksBut you can’t save a soulWithout saving your ownYou can make up tricksThat mesmerize slickers and hicksBut when you walk the walk of JesusYou’re never aloneSaid the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brief, Dignity, Each of Us, Equality, From the Heart, God's Family, Irish Homily, Jesus, Knew, Lifting Up, Love For One Another, Make Up, Mesmerize, Never Alone, Pick Up Stix, Play Our Part, Poetry and Poems, President, Restores, Rock Star, Save A Soul, Save Your Own, Slickers and Hicks, Straits of Poverty, Thousand Licks, Tricks, Walk the Walk, What He Meant
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All Those Secret Sins
All Those Secret Sinsby Michael DoyleOh my, the hypocrisyHave you no dignityWith all the secret sinsThat pops up now and thenHiding hate behind that smileMeaning yes in our denialIn a matter of time, it revealsItself in vivid detailsRight before the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Our Little Lies, Behind, Best To Change, Denial, Dignity, Does Not Accept, God Knows, Half Expected, Heed, Hiding Hate, Holds Us All Accountable, Hyprocrisy, Insurmountable, Living In Repentance, Matter of Time, Meaning Yes, Now and Then, Our Alibis, Our Own Good, Poetry and Poems, Pops Up, Read, Rest of Our Days, Reveal, Secret Sins, See the Signs, Smile, Surprise, The Lord, Understood, Vivid Details, Warnings, Ways, World's Eyes
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Na/Glo/Po/Wri/Mo #21: In Believing We Can
Na/GloPoWriMo #21: In Believing We Canby Michael DoyleIn today, I see tomorrowIn today, perched as it isIn today, seated on the edgeIn today, formed by yesterdayAnswers needed to questionsAnswers in need of themselvesAnswers that go unansweredAnswers we still need to … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepting Difference, Answers, Ask Deeper, Believes, Believing We Can, Complete, Dignity, Done, Door, Edge, Extinguish, Find Our Journey, Formed, Hard Work, In Need of Themselves, In the End, Journey Is Long, Let Go of Hate, Life Will Win, Love Is the Answer, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Offer Best Equity, Only We, Perch, Poetry and Poems, Question, Replete, Seated, Smarter, Society, Start In Belief, Stay the Course, Still Need To Find, Today, Tomorrow, Truly Grow, Truly Know, Unanswered, Vanity, Ways of Opportunity, We All Truly Belong, Yesterday
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To Truly Win
To Truly Winby Michael DoyleWhat does it mean to truly winAnd in explaining this, where we do beginIt is the servant king who in humilityGives to each follower and person their dignityGoing back to the basics of the crossWe find … Continue reading
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Tagged A Very Fine Start, Actions, All Your Heart, Begin, Best Game Plan, Blessings, Dignity, Each Follower and Person, Each Person, Emulating Divinity, Explain, Fixation, Giving Love Away, His Ways, Holiness, Humility, In Our Days, It Stays, Jesus, Life's Loneliness, Live God's Will, Live Together, Living Love Humbly, Loss, Love God and Neighbor, Math, Miracle, My Friend, Not Matter How Much You Give, Obsessions, Only True Authority, Our Will Aside, Pays, Poetry and Poems, Possession, Practice, Respect, Rising Above, Selfish, Serene, Servant King, Servant leader, Serve Others, Serving One Another, Serving Where You Can, Set Apart, Sister or Brother, Surrender, Tender, The Basics of the Cross, The Church, The Winning Edge, Thinking of Others, To Truly Win, Ultimate, Understanding, Vidtory, Ways of God, Winning, Wisest Path
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First Principles: America’s Founding Principles Are True Not Because Any Generation – Including Our Own – Has Lived Them Perfectly, But Because They Are Based Upon the Eternal Truths of the Human Condition
“America’s founding principles are true not because any generation — including our own — has lived them perfectly, but because they are based upon the eternal truths of the human condition. They are rooted in our capacity for evil and … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Capacity, Created In the Image of God, Dignity, Equality, Eternal Truths, Every Man Woman and Child, Evil, First Principles, Founding Principles, Generation, Glory, Human Condition, Longing For Truth, Love of Freedom, Need For Order, Potential, Power For Good, Rooted, Striving For Justice, The 1776 Project, The Worth, True
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Thought For the Day: Those Who Insist On the Dignity of Their Office Show They Have Not Deserved It
“Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.” -Baltasar Gracian, philosopher and writer (8 Jan 1601-1658)
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Tagged Baltasar Gracian, Deserve, Dignity, Insist, Office, Show, Those, Thought For the Day
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Life Worth Living
Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Adversity, Belief and Love, Blindness, Bliss, Brith, Challenge, Chance, Cherish, Child of God, Circrumstance, Clasped, Destiny, Dignity, Discerned, Done, Driven, Embrace, Faith, Fall, Family, Forgiving, Gaze, God, God Above, God First, God's, God's Favor, Grace, Grown In Faith, Guided, Hands, Happiness, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Holds, Humility, Integrity, Learned, Legacy, Lessons, Letter, Life, Life Worth Living, Live, Living, Living These Moments, Lord's Face, Love, Love and Kindness, Mad, Mean To Me, Most, My Best Treasure, My Measure, Our Battle, Our Legacy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Purpose Filled Life, Rattle, Recall, Rise Above, Son, Steward, Thanks, Thanks Be To God, This World, To All, Treat Others, True, Waking Moments, Walk Our Walk, World, Worth
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Wishes of Gray (Thoughts On My Birthday)
Wishes of Gray (Thoughts On My Birthday)by Michael DoyleIn all of my wishes of grayToday is just another dayI’m another year olderBut no less the bolderCreated in my confessionIs my long ago connectionThat I’ll never be older than I feelWith … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmed, Another Year Older, Be Their Best, Best, Both Feet Grounded, Bury Me, Capability, Catch As Catch Can, Closer To Death, Confession, Connection, Create, Daugthers, Death, Deeply, Dignity, Done My Best, Door, Each Breath, Each Day, Encourage, Face, Feel, God's Will, Gray, Guessing, Heaven, Hell, Hesitation, Ignore, Instill, Integrity, Just Another Day, Keep Faith, Keep It Real, Knocking, Lesson, Life Is Lived, Life's Lessons, Live Life Fully, Look Back, Loved Ones, Loved Them, Loving Eyes, Measure, My Birthday, Never Forget, No Goodbyes, No Less Bolder, No Time, Older, On His Side, Passed the Test, Poetry and Poems, Preciousness, Regret, Satisfied, Say This, See You Later, Sigh, Stumble, Taught, There Is No Such Thing, Thoughts, To My Last Breath, Today, Treasure, Truly Matters, When It's Time It's Time, Wishes, Witty Reply, Wounded Pride
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What Is Jeopardy?
What Is Jeopardy?by Michael DoyleIt’s a strange thing, pop culture’s popularityI, among the many, revered moments of JeopardyPredictably catchy theme played on hesitationAs each of us hoped we just might have the questionThat matched the answer showing up on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Trebek, Angel, Answer, Best of the Show, Bid, Board, Coax, Confess, Dignity, Fact, Final Jeopardy, Forward, Full Worth, Glow, Gracious, Handled It, Harsh, Heartfelt, Hestitation, Host, I Cried, Know, Life, Match, My Life, Mystery, Next, North, Obsess, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Popularity, Question, Quiet, Revered, Shadow, Show, Sigh, Star, Stoic, Them, Warm Heart, What is Jeopardy, What Is Life For?
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